VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (letter).

Kind passer-by

December 29, 2001|By Karen Yaney.

Joliet — My husband and I along with my 5-year-old step-grandson experienced an act of random kindness that we felt we needed to share. We were traveling north on Interstate Highway 294 on Dec. 16 to my cousins' house to celebrate the last day of Hanukkah.

Before we left home, we loaded up the trunk with gifts. It was a rainy day and we had an accident in which all of our gifts ended up in the middle of the highway.

As we sat there stunned, a surreal scene unfolded. A man got out of his car, calmly picked up our gifts as traffic slowed and stopped, then walked across the highway to hand us our presents.